Anthony Tuck

Anthony Tuck holds degrees in Classical Archaeology from Haverford College (BA, 1992) and Brown University (PhD, 1996). He has taught at UMass since 2006. He serves as Director of Excavations at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), an Etruscan site dating to the 8^th to 6^th centuries BCE. His research focuses on social, economic, and political development in early urban Italy. 

• Cities and Communities of Etruria: Poggio Civitate (Murlo). (University of Texas Press. Austin 2021).
• The Archaeology of Language at Poggio Civitate (Murlo). With Rex Wallace. (Giorgio Bretschneider, Rome 2018).
• L’Avventura Etrusca di Murlo: 50 anni di scavi a Poggio Civitate. With Annalisa Coppolara & Goran Soderberg. (Ara Editrice, Siena 2017).

• First Words: The Archaeology of Language at Poggio Civitate. With Rex Wallace (Arcadia Press 2013).

• “Totems of Power: A Bronze Cauldron and an Iron Adze from Poggio Civitate.” Etruscan and Italic Studies. 31. Forthcoming. 2026
• “Woven Witness: Philomela, Procne, and Visualized Narratives through Textiles,” with Cole Reilly, Cinzia Presti, and Joseph Capozzi. In Homo Textor: Weaving as a Technical Mode of Existence. E. Karslus & G. Fanfani eds. Munich. 138-159. 2026
• “The Sacred and the Mundane: Divergent Dice from Poggio Civitate (Murlo).” With Rex Wallace & Brad Lidge. Etruscan and Italic Studies 30.1-18. 10.1515/etst-2025-0022. 2026
• “Politics at the Dinner Table: The Social Performance of Banqueting at Etruscan Poggio Civitate.” With Glennie, A., S. Kansa, K. Kreindler. In Food, Gods, & Ancestors: Global Perspectives on the Archaeology of Ritual Food Practices.  Archaeological Review from Cambridge 40.1: 40-55. 2025
• "An Ivory Writing Tablet from Poggio Civitate (Murlo)." with Rex Wallaces, Brooke Camman, and Makenzie Weber. Etruscan and Italic Studies 27. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2023-0016. 2024
• "The Lure of the East: Etruscan Luxury Goods of the 8th and 7th Centuries BCE," in deAngelis, F. ed. Handbook of the Etruscans. Oxford University Press. 18-42. 2023
• “Where the Wild Things Are: Etruscan Hunting and Trophy Display at Poggio Civitate (Murlo).” With Sarah Kansa. European Journal of Archaeology. Forthcoming. 2022
• “Woven Witness: Philomela, Procne, and Visualized Narratives through Textiles,” with Cole Reilly, Cinzia Presti, and Joseph Capozzi. In Homo Textor: Weaving as a Technical Mode of Existence. E. Karslus & G. Fanfani eds. Munich. Forthcoming. 2022
• “Drunk with Power: Wine Drinking Vessels, Inebriation, Sexuality, and Politics at Poggio Civitate (Murlo).” Studi Etruschi 83. 35-68. 2021
•  “Il telaio di Omero.” Prometeo. 70-74. 2021
• “Resource and Ritual: Manufacturing and Production at Poggio Civitate (Murlo).” In Making Cities: Economies of Production and Urbanization Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE. Gleba, M. Ed. 147-160. 2021
• “Le aristocrazie arcaiche: il caso di Murlo (Poggio Civitate).” With Ann Glennie. Atti del XXIV Convegno Internazionale di Studi sulla Storia e l’Archeologia dell’Etruria. G. Della Fina. 515-545. 2021
• “Augury and Observation: Speculations on an Italic Ritual Practice.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 65. 540-557. 2021